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...ethical complications due to the necessary use of immunosuppressants, or anti-rejection drugs, to prevent the patient’s immune system from rejecting the donor tissue. These toxic drugs expose patients to infection and increase the risk of cancer, prompting many to quesiton whether it is right to subject patients to such risks for a non-lifesaving procedure...
...France, identity is not the sensitive subject that it is in the United States. The delicate balancing of competing identities that occupies so many Americans does not take place here; one does not speak of being African- or Asian-French, for example. If one is French, one is just that, end of story. Unlike at Harvard, where recognizing the diversity of our peers is strictly de rigeur, the French demand that their fellows keep their origins to themselves. As one legislator rhetorically asked on the floor of the French senate in 2004, “must we always call attention...
...touchy-at-best subject of identity, French staunchness contrasts sharply with Americans’ cautious sensitivity. But here on the quiet streets of Paris’ suburbs, where Muslims are, in some places, the majority, and where Muslim women wearing headscarves shuffle along their daily routines undisturbed, the France imagined by legislators seems more than just a métro ride away...
...Murakami says of 1997's Underground, his oral history of the Tokyo subway gas attacks and a book he sees as a career turning point. "At the same time, I have a responsibility." Though he says he doesn't want to talk about Japanese politics, he returns to the subject again and again throughout a 212-hour conversation, bushy eyebrows bobbing as he worries about "politicians who rewrite history," and the growing tendency in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Japan to forget about wartime atrocities. Japanese history has always been in the background of his works - and his best novel...
...finally over between us and amour? After decades as one of cinema's favorite subjects and centuries as the engine of novels and songs, romance faces a cold shoulder as a subject worthy of our attention. The recent movie calendar is pockmarked with the craters of little romantic bombs (Catch and Release, In the Land of Women...